2.1 Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) are at the core of JBI’s vision, mission, model for evidence-based healthcare and global community spanning more than 40 countries. JBI encourages authors to consider Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the planning and conduct of systematic and scoping reviews.  Further information and guidance, including checklists, regarding Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in evidence syntheses can be found in Chapter 16 of the Cochrane Handbook as follows: 

Welch VA, Petkovic J, Jull J, Hartling L, Klassen T, Kristjansson E, Pardo Pardo J, Petticrew M, Stott DJ, Thomson D, Ueffing E, Williams K, Young C, Tugwell P. Chapter 16: Equity and specific populations. In: Higgins JPT, Thomas J, Chandler J, Cumpston M, Li T, Page MJ, Welch VA (editors). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.4 (updated August 2023). Cochrane, 2023. Available from http://www.training.cochrane.org/handbook . 

Additional resources can be found on the https://methods.cochrane.org/equity/projects/evidence-equity/progress-plus , including the PROGRESS-Plus tool to identify characteristics that stratify health opportunities and outcomes. 

Individual chapters in this manual may also include information and guidance specific to the methodology and consideration of issues related to EDI including but limited to the Qualitative methodology chapter.